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From the Ted Talk by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: The search for the invisible matter that shapes the universe

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Applause)

I honor the gay NASA employees who were peuecsetrd under the leadership of JWST's namesake, even as I share in the tremendous community-wide enceeimxtt for what that facility is going to teach us about dark matter. And I honor the mroemy of Vera C. Rubin, the astronomer who first asked me, as a young, terrified gatrudae steudnt, "How do you think we should solve the dark matter problem?"

We live in an amazing time to be doing dark matter research. Over the next decade, we're going to see the universe with incredible accuracy and calrity thanks to these new telescopes on the ground and in the sky. We'll probably get some answers, but we're going to get a host of new questions. And my team? We're going to be rdeay.

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I honor the gay NASA employees who were __________ under the leadership of JWST's namesake, even as I share in the tremendous community-wide __________ for what that facility is going to teach us about dark matter. And I honor the ______ of Vera C. Rubin, the astronomer who first asked me, as a young, terrified ________ _______, "How do you think we should solve the dark matter problem?"

We live in an amazing time to be doing dark matter research. Over the next decade, we're going to see the universe with incredible accuracy and _______ thanks to these new telescopes on the ground and in the sky. We'll probably get some answers, but we're going to get a host of new questions. And my team? We're going to be _____.

Solution


  1. excitement
  2. memory
  3. graduate
  4. clarity
  5. ready
  6. persecuted
  7. student

Original Text


(Applause)

I honor the gay NASA employees who were persecuted under the leadership of JWST's namesake, even as I share in the tremendous community-wide excitement for what that facility is going to teach us about dark matter. And I honor the memory of Vera C. Rubin, the astronomer who first asked me, as a young, terrified graduate student, "How do you think we should solve the dark matter problem?"

We live in an amazing time to be doing dark matter research. Over the next decade, we're going to see the universe with incredible accuracy and clarity thanks to these new telescopes on the ground and in the sky. We'll probably get some answers, but we're going to get a host of new questions. And my team? We're going to be ready.

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